Ticket-spindle.



No. 738,275. PATENTED SEPT. s, 1903. 11-. M. BARNET.

TICKET SPINDLE.

APPLIOLTIOK FILED MAY 14, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented September 8, 1903.

HARRY M. BARNET, OF MINNEAPOLIS, lVIINNESO'IA.

TICKET-SPINDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 738,275, dated September 8, 1903.

Application filed May 14, 1903. Serial No. 157,108- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LHARRY lVLBARNET, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket-Spindles; and

I do hereby declare the following to be a full,

clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My present invention relates to so-called ticket-spindles or spindle-files, and has for its object to improve the samein the several particulars hereinafter noted.

The invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described, and defined in the claims.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanyin g drawings, wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation showing a spindle constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is an elevation on an enlarged scale and with parts broken away looking at the spindle at an angle of ninety degrees from the direction in which it is viewed in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line 02 m of Fig. 2.

The numeral 1 indicates a flat base or support having a vertically-disposed tubular stem 2. Into the upper end of the stem 2 is in- 1 sorted the depending trunnion 3 of a bifurcated head 4., having vertically-projecting ears 5 and laterally projecting lower ears 6. The body of the head 4 is rounded or bulged laterally or in a direction with the plane 'of of the ears 5 and 6, as indicated at 43, and below said surface 4 is again contracted, as indicated at 4:". Rivets or permanently-secured pins 7 are passed through the ears 6 outward of and separated by a space from the contracted surfaces 4 of the head 4. A removable lock-bolt 8 is passed through the upper ears 5 at a point leaving considerable clearance between said bolt and the upper portion of the head 4.. This lock-bolt 8 is headed at one end, and at its other end it is which, as shown and preferred, there are two, are reversely bentthat is, are formed in rights and lefts -and are provided at their upper ends with sharp-edged cutting-heads 11, preferably of ordinary construction. The lower ends of the rods 10 are of constant diameter, but are bent to conform, at least approximately, to the compound curve of the surfaces 4 and 4 and when thus bent each one will fit, as shown in Fig. 3, between the head 4 and the lock-bolt 8 and one of the pins 7. When the lock-bolt 8 is removed, the rods 10 may of course by a slight pivotal and endwise movement be drawn from between the head 4 and the pins 7 or inserted between the said parts by a downward pivotal or rocking movement. When the said prongs are applied, as shown in Fig. 3, and the lock-bolt Sis inserted through the ears 5, the said rods or prongs 10 are securely locked to the head 4..

It will be readily understood that there is a great advantage in having the lower ends of the rods or prongs 10 of constant diameterthat is, formed without heads or other enlargements over which the tickets must be drawn in removing them from the spindle. The prongs are supported in such manner that the tickets will accumulate thereon until the prongs are completely covered before any of the tickets will be crowded against the cuttingheads 11. Of course a single prong might be employed, or, again, more than two prongs might be employed, all within the scope of the invention herein set forth and claimed.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

1. In a device of the character described, the combination with a rod having one end crooked-or bent, but of approximately constant diameter, of a supporting-head having parts with which the crooked end of saidv rod interlocks, and a lock-bolt detachably secured to said head for holding the said rod interlocked with the said head, substantially as described.

2. In a device of the character described, the combination with a head 4 having ears 5, of a pair of rods 10 crooked at their lower ends for interlocking engagement with said head 4, but of constant diameter, and the lock-bolt 8 passed through perforations in surfaces 4* and 4:", the said crooked ends being of constant diameter, and a lock-bolt 8 passed through perforations in said ears 5 I 5 and serving to lock said rods 10 to said head I 4, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HARRY M. BARNET.

Witnesses:

GENEVIEVE HIRSOH, F. D. MERCHANT. 

